[SeekAndFind]

The POW/MIA flag waves near the Lincoln Memorial before Memorial Day in Washington May 23, 2013. The flag was designed during the Vietnam War as a symbol of national concern about U.S. military personnel taken as prisoners of war or listed as missing in action

[yarddog]

Next will be the U.S. Flag then eventually even the concept of a nation.

[drbuzzard]

Wow, Newsweek sure has jumped the shark with this bilge.

[Army Air Corps]

The author has far too much free time on his hands and is in need of a job that involves long hours of manual labour.

[Army Air Corps]

...the better to paint the North Vietnamese as uniquely cruel and inhumane.

The North Vietnamese did a fine job of painting themselves as cruel and inhumane via their own actions.

[deoetdoctrinae]

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, that he's not going after the Christian flag. (I know, give them time.)

[SES1066]

Beware revisionist 'historians', they are known to write opinion as fact.

Eric S. "Rick" Perlstein (1969-) is an American historian and journalist - former [staff] writer for The Village Voice & The New Republic and a political columnist for RollingStone.com in 2012. He has written articles for Mother Jones, The Nation, and many other magazines.

Birds of a feather you know!

[Menehune56]

Wow, what a profanity filled hate screed. Hard to believe that Newsweek was once a respected news source. I actually subscribed to it for 25 years.

[skeeter]

Commies have always been about hauling down flags and icons of systems they seek to replace with their totalitarian kleptocracy disguised as a ‘workers paradise’.

[Williams]

Filthy leftist bastards.

[colorado tanker]

Who is this idiot? The classification MIA was in use long before the Vietnam War.

[M Kehoe]

Newsweek is still alive? Go figure.

Let me guess, Perlstein never served in the military. Probable reason is that it was before Clinton's "Don't ask, don't tell."

5.56mm

[BenLurkin]

Read the whole article.

Basically a pro-Communist screed — which does not tie the POW/MIA flag to racism.

Unbelievable that anyone would take the stance adopted by Mr. Perlstein — let alone see it published in a nationally recognized outlet.

Just my opinions of course.

[Williams]

Ah I enjoyed the walk down memory lane. Vietnam launched the left on it’s communist loving, America hating rampage through our culture.

We even have here the racist ideological hatred of the South Vietrnamese (our allies of course) and the total pass given to the terrorist, evil despotic communist North Vietnamese invaders.

Seems like just yesterday America was bamboozled to walk down an evil path by scum like the author of this article.

[Paulie]

I knew once Nikki Haley failed to defend the Southern heritage by calling for the CBF’s removal, the bloodhounds would be back. The malcontents are never satisfied no matter how irrational.

Ann Coulter was right - Haley knows very little and appreciates even less about what that flag represents.

Now this. The more ground we give up, the harder it will be to set things right.

[familyop]

And they’re not heroes! Donald is the hero! Donald was so courageous, he avoided the politically correct conservative draft. [Shovelful of steaming irony and sarcasm there.]

[SES1066]

Try Newsweek for only $1.25 per week

Any takers?

[oh8eleven]

During the Nixon years, the Pentagon moved them into a newly invented “Missing in Action” column.
So there were no MIAs in WWI, WWII or Korea? BS

[G Larry]

Well.....Ricky......

ya just might have a harder time puttin’ that one away.

Waaaayyy too many of us who served in that era that can still shoot straight....

[equaviator]

How 'bout this one?

[DemforBush]

“the better to paint the North Vietnamese as uniquely cruel and inhumane”

Unique? Probably not. Most communist dictatorships get their jollies beating and torturing helpless prisoners.

Cruel and Inhumane? Ask any POW who spent time in the Hanoi Hilton about that, bub. The ones who survived to come back and tell their stories, at least.

What a jackwagon. Ranks right up there with Tom Harkin’s comments about nothing really bad happening to the South Vietnamese when the North took over.